Comments on: Gentrification as immigration

By: SuperQ

SuperQ — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 14:04:28 +0000

As a stereotypical techie, who moved from Minnesota to SF to work for a big company, I helped build Noisebridge[0][1]. An open, anarchist hackerspace devoted to learning and sharing. We built it in the middle of the Mission to keep it accessible to everyone.

[0]: https://www.noisebridge.net
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noisebridge

By: Pacific Standard Simon

Pacific Standard Simon — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 04:45:31 +0000

Tried to read, but there were so many qualifiers in the language, imaginary “privileges”, and unnecessary white-guilt that I couldn’t finish.

Besides, you still haven’t explained why oppressed people need or would want “privileged” people to fight for them. After all, there’s only so far you can go in your fight before you start offending your “privileged” supporters.

By: Hazbeen

Hazbeen — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 19:58:07 +0000

The reason young, white people tend to serve as the mouth-piece for the oppressed is they have the means and access and instead of ignoring injustice, use their privilege to fight against it.

Seriously, read this: http://occupywallstreet.net/story/explaining-white-privilege-broke-white-person

Displacement is class warfare under the guise of might makes right.

By: Mobity Mosely

Mobity Mosely — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 19:34:44 +0000

What “wealth of new cultural traditions” are these white guys from New England bringing to our city?

By: Allan Hough

Allan Hough — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 06:18:54 +0000

I stopped reading when it used “ya” in place of “yeah.”

By: boo

boo — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 02:51:04 +0000

The movement is so fucking racist and evil because it created hate where thete wasn’t any by bored protesters who define themselves by protest and were sad Occupy was over, and Rebecca Solnit, who was shocked, *shocked* that after selling her Mission apartment to a Google engineer, the housing market was tough.
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God forbid people stop connoting Latino people with “poor” who need some young, white, college students with bad hair serve as their mouthpieces at protests. And the young white and Asian and Indian tech workers have always been rich, right? Never struggled. The elderly are always poor, Hasbeen? Your world of stereotypes must make it so easy to hate. I guess that’s how you come up with vile thins like “useless bag of ladyparts”. Try compassion.

By: Pacific Standard Simon

Pacific Standard Simon — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 02:28:30 +0000

But, but, *sputter* — that wouldn’t advance anybody’s agenda!

By: Pacific Standard Simon

Pacific Standard Simon — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 02:26:26 +0000

Mmm-hmm.

By: useless has been

useless has been — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 01:01:40 +0000

no doubt. and meanwhile the fool tries to lecture us on class and race.

By: umm

umm — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 00:37:54 +0000

the part where you refer to women as ‘useless bags of lady parts’ is the part where i stopped reading.

By: Big Head

Big Head — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 22:08:01 +0000

Maybe we treat people as individuals and not as members of a group? The smallest minority is the individual.

By: Hazbeen

Hazbeen — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 21:35:28 +0000

Exactly. White supremacy as the status quo, which she is defending is racist and needs to end.

By: Yo Mama

Yo Mama — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 21:34:38 +0000

STFU!

Racism is for “HaS Beenz”

By: Hazbeen

Hazbeen — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 20:32:18 +0000

Ya, except this worthless bag of ladyparts forgets the clear distinction of class in migratory patterns as it relates to population and economic mobility. Rich people can move anywhere they want. Poor people, the elderly, the marginalized are forced to move where they can afford due to rising costs. This is not the same and she is either willfully comparing the two scenarios out of an political agenda (aka white supremacy, status-quo)or so naive as to matters of class and power that she should immediately be removed from any and all media/journalistic duties.

…and for sharing and by association MM is obviously no smarter.